Become empowered to understand art. No prior experience necessary.
The Art Museum Insider gives you everything you need to have more satisfying and meaningful experiences with visual art. This book introduces fundamental ideas and key skills that will allow you to make your own informed opinions, helping you understand art whenever and however you encounter it. And yes, you will learn how to understand abstract art!
This isn’t an art history book. You won’t learn about specific artworks or memorize names and dates, and you won’t need to study each style or movement separately. Instead, you’ll discover core themes that apply to all forms of visual art and cultivate ways of thinking about them in any artworks you choose. There’s no prior experience necessary, no jargon, and no need for endless years of study. That’s why it’s a must-have addition to your art history personal curriculum!
Learn how to understand art, interpret art, and enjoy art in museums.
- Become an empowered art viewer.
- Enjoy art of all types, not just a few famous paintings.
- Analyze art like an art historian.
- Discover the main components of artworks.
- Find out how art conveys meaning.
- Practice interpreting art with activities and prompts.
- Expert advice for how to enjoy art museums.
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Praise for The Art Museum Insider
Art books editor and Art Herstory founder Erika Gaffney
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It is a wonderful book – beautifully thorough and interesting, with an inclusive tone and accessible writing. … The “food for thought” and “art viewing approach” interjections are helpful features. … And above all, the abstract art section was immensely helpful for me personally
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Learn
Recognize the choices artists make and how they affect us as viewers.
Interpret
Discover artworks’ many meanings and ways to interpret them.
Practice
Practice skills that will make you a savvier consumer of images everywhere.
Engage
Look closely, think critically, and form conclusions about art.
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About the author
Alexandra Kiely is an independent art historian whose work focuses on making art understandable to the public. She has a B.A. (with honors) in art history and more than 12 years of experience in the field. In addition to founding A Scholarly Skater Art History, for which she has written about 400 posts and several ebooks on topics from individual artworks to famous styles to museum-visiting advice, she has contributed to DailyArt Magazine, The Collector, the ArtHerstory blog, and more.
Why trust me?
It’s my job to understand art history’s most challenging ideas so I can make them comprehensible for others. To that end, I spend my time studying subjects like global art history and its contexts, theories of art and architecture, the science behind art viewing, and museum studies. I combine insights I’ve gained from these diverse approaches with my personal experiences to create content that I truly believe will be most effective and accessible for my readers. Thus, my work doesn’t just rehash the same points you can find everywhere else. Nor does it have the limited perspective of someone churning out articles without much knowledge in the subject or worse, an AI that’s merely compiling the information that’s already out there.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Building Blocks of Art
Chapter Three: Content
Chapter Four: Interpreting Art
Chapter Five: Using Your New Skills
Details
Format: downloadable and printable pdf
Length: 108 pages (six chapters), including 35 large color images
Details: Your purchase allows unlimited downloads and prints for one user.
Creating independent art viewers
While it doesn’t teach specific facts about art history, The Art Museum Insider teaches its readers to think like art historians, empowering them to analyze art for themselves rather than relying entirely on outside sources to shape their experiences. In addition, the skills and information within this book can be applied to many different types of art and images, rather than focusing exclusively on a small set of European artworks like many other art books.
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